Vulnerability · Published Jun 30, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

CVE-2026-58165OpenZiti - Privilege Escalation to Admin via Unauthorized Enrollment Creation

High 8.8

In plain English

A high-severity missing authorization in ziti from openziti. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 72.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

OpenZiti through 2.0.0, fixed in commit 3027fdf, contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated non-admin identities with fine-grained enrollment management permissions to create enrollments for any identity, including the default administrator, because the ApplyCreate function in controller/model/enrollment_manager.go verifies only that the target identity exists without performing authorization checks binding the caller to the target identity. Attackers can redeem the resulting one-time token through the unauthenticated client API enrollment endpoint to obtain a client certificate authenticating as the targeted admin identity, yielding full administrative control of the controller and the zero-trust overlay it manages.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
openziti	ziti	0 – through 2.0.0

Weakness: CWE-862 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openziti-privilege-escalation-to-admin-via-unauthorized-enrollment-creation third-party-advisory